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by RealityNow 7y ago
Yea I didn't even mention my prior job. They had a mandatory 9:30am attendance meeting that they called "standup", and if I showed up 5 minutes late my manager would joke about it coming out of my bonus. Despite this I don&#x
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by RealityNow 7y ago
Yes, I was consistently late for a software engineering job where 95% of my productive time was spent in front of a computer and "lateness" was arbitrarily defined by upper managers who moved the standup time 1.5 hours earlier to
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by RealityNow 7y ago
PIP isn't a pink slip at all companies. I once got a PIP when working at a mid-sized corporation. Fortunately my performance wasn't an issue, they just didn't like that I was frequently late to the daily morning standup (whic
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by RealityNow 7y ago
You're being pedantic and ignoring the whole point of the article.
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by RealityNow 7y ago
This is extremely disturbing, not to mention so ironic that a self-proclaimed "communist" regime is torturing and kidnapping communist activists. We can debate Marxism here in the comments, but the fact is that nobody regardless o
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by RealityNow 9y ago
I think it has less to do with merely growing the money supply, and more to do with preventing and quickly recovering from crashes. The Great Depression was exacerbated and prolonged by us being on the gold standard and thus not being able
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Mass transit in America is terrible, period (outside of maybe Manhattan, despite the fact that our subway has been getting worse and is in dire need of upgrading). America sucks at mass transit, but for whatever reason Americans don't
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Well that sucks. Guess those videos are probably gone forever.
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by RealityNow 9y ago
My Youtube account got banned 10 years ago with videos on it I made as a teen that are now gone forever. 7 years ago or so I had tried emailing their customer support which of course didn't get me anywhere. Is there any way I can get t
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by RealityNow 9y ago
It helps anybody who's underpaid. One being underpaid doesn't imply or even suggest that one was discriminated against. I was underpaid my first job, and it wasn't due to discrimination. I would imagine that the majority of p
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Do what you enjoy, and don't be afraid to venture outside of software development. At the end of the day, not everyone obtains fulfillment out of staring at a computer screen all day fixing bugs and developing incremental features onto
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Calling this a gender issue is like saying "we're raising the minimum wage to help women". The law benefits male employees just as much as it benefits women. Lawmakers and PR teams just like to spin everything as addressing t
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by RealityNow 9y ago
It's absolutely absurd that "arrest quotas" are even a thing in America. The job of the police in most first world countries is to protect the people, not make arrests for ludicrous laws. I don't want my tax dollars fund
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Welfare is capped at a maximum of 5 years, and unemployment insurance - which you don't qualify for if you quit your job - is capped at even less. Meanwhile student loan payments pile up and can be used to garnish your wages and socia
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by RealityNow 9y ago
I had thought you were saying that American food is better than Japanese food, my mistake. Yea as much as I love Japanese food, I wouldn't agree with the statement that NYC's best is superior to Japan's average.
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by RealityNow 9y ago
As someone who's also lived in NYC and been to Japan extensively, Japan's fast food and mid-level cuisine is a hell of a lot tastier and healthier than America's. Wrote a bit about Japanese fast food in another comment here
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by RealityNow 9y ago
I much prefer Japanese fast food as it's significantly more delicious and healthier. Go into any convenience store and you can get a tasty and healthy onigiri for $1, or a little bento box style meal for maybe $3-4. Of course there&#x2
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Either way, we need to move to electronic voting eventually, and inevitably will. The reason being that our political system is broken, and the people don't feel represented. In this day and age, we have the technology to accommodate a
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by RealityNow 9y ago
What is up with this societal mentality that the employee is beneath the employer, and the employer has the license to be rude and it's the employee's job to accommodate their bullshit? Sending a resume for a job interview and dea
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by RealityNow 9y ago
You would need a hash to verify the transaction, and hashes wouldn't be publicly tied to one's identity. Thus if I claim that a hash represents me, then there'd be no way for anybody else to verify that. It's a legitimat
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by RealityNow 9y ago
What's causing the opioid use? I'd imagine the causation goes both ways. Has anybody actually asked these people why they use opioids? Or is it just economists running statistical regressions from their ivory towers?
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by RealityNow 9y ago
You would also need an elaborate operation involving tons of people to hijack a blockchain-based e-voting system. The beauty of blockchain is that anybody could verify their own vote on the public ledger (eg. like etherscan.io for Ethereum)
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Pen-and-paper is not observable by anybody. It's a complete black box, and there's no way for me to verify that my vote went through. With a blockchain on the other hand, anybody could verify that their vote went through (just lik
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Why can't voting just be done on the blockchain with a public ledger? Any vote could be verified. I'd feel more secure with this than paper ballots, which are very insecure and have been tampered with so many times.
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Central planning dictatorships an universal basic income are totally different. There's no reason that UBI can't be sustainable. And last time I checked, retirees are still receiving their social security checks.
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by RealityNow 9y ago
There's a severe shortage of quality jobs and people who want those jobs. An unbelievably high percentage of Americans are either underemployed or working low paying low quality dead-end jobs. Even if this were a small percentage, the
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by RealityNow 9y ago
UBI doesn't limit employees from walking away from their jobs, it enables them to. > The option to work for yourself isn't taken away by a jobs guarantee. Obviously. Job guarantee programs however still don't allow you to
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Copyright law is so outdated. When are we going to end these parasitic liberty-infringing laws?
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Obviously AI could be used to kill people (see last episode of Black Mirror season 3), but can we possibly do about it? Tell people to not research AI? Good luck with that. I hope some of that $600b in defense spending is being used to coun
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Yes, technically buying a stock makes you a part owner of that company. But if the stock is already on the secondary market, you're simply purchasing a piece of ownership from someone else that already exists. This is not an investment

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